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comparing excavated sites

 

 

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

Documentary record search

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

more comparative studies

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

experimental reconstruction

 

 

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection